Statements about Chukovsky’s work by other poets. Quotes and sayings by Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky

Birth name: Nikolai Vasilievich Korneychukov.

In 1968 K.I. Chukovsky The publishing house "Children's Literature" published a popular retelling of the Bible: "The Tower of Babel and other ancient legends." But the entire circulation was destroyed by the authorities.

« Chukovsky managed to fill up his day so that there was not a single crack left for everyday life, for political or literary-political activities, intrigues, slander, showdowns (he still periodically got into awkward situations - for example, when Alexei Tolstoy published his private letter, without any designed for printing and containing an unflattering assessment Zamyatin). He completely cut himself off from everything that shortens and poisons life: sometimes they wonder how he lived eighty-seven years with such a frantic schedule, with such hard labor, maintaining excellent health? I will say more: he would still be alive if the illiterate nurse who gave him an injection for heart weakness had not infected him with jaundice through a dirty needle, from which he died. During the intravenous infusion, he, as always, told his sister something literary... Lord, what can we say about himself - he so imbued Mura, his beloved child, with literature, so taught him to defend himself from life with poetry, that a ten-year-old woman dying of tuberculosis the girl forgot about her doom, reading aloud “He stains the leaf with one spirit, he listens to the whistle with his accustomed ear...”

Chukovsky very quickly (he generally thought extremely quickly, which is why it seemed to him that he wrote so slowly) realized that no other cure for life had been invented - only drying, continuous work, and literary work would be best, since nothing but literature does not provide such 100% oblivion and does not contribute to the development of such useful mental qualities. Imagine a drug whose use makes you kinder and cleaner! A similar idea was recently expressed by Iskander: listening Bach, you experience about the same euphoria as after a glass or two of good wine - but Bach does not leave a hangover, the alcohol here is of a higher purity. Literature, even if it is thrice cruel, still magically elevates the soul: only bad literature destroys it, and just as people with especially tender stomachs writhe in pain after swallowing even a crumb of poor-quality food, so people with real taste fall into a frenzy, not to mention bad, but also from mediocre prose; Chukovsky, with his absolute taste, attacked any vulgarity wherever he saw it. […]

... passionately arguing with almost all his contemporaries, he just as passionately helped everyone in everyday life. For literature is such a thing: in it we are obliged to disagree, we are obliged to fight tooth and nail - we are talking about eternal questions, about immortality, these are bloody and cruel matters; but all of us who write are waging a COMMON duel with life and power, and here we are obliged to stick together. Chukovsky understood this high corporate spirit better than others - for this Akhmatova called him the personification of the good morals of literature, even though he wrote about her not at all as complimentary as she loved... For this she forgave him Sasha Cherny, at first mortally offended by the article, in which he suspected (not without reason) a hint of a relationship between him and his lyrical hero; a devastating poem “Korney Belinsky” appeared, to which Chukovsky... managed not to be offended! Yes, a hard worker, yes, a convict, yes, thousands of pages of useless texts: lectures, translations, polemical articles (the objects of polemics sank into oblivion before he picked up the pen to answer)..."

He sculpts some pots out of clay with the children, laughs, wipes his hands on his knees, and then walks home with the grimy gang in pants stiffened by dried clay.

This huge, mustachioed, slightly awkward man with long arms, disheveled hair, transparent and sly eyes, like Vrubel’s Pan, is the incredibly kind children’s writer Korney Chukovsky.
Few people know that Chukovsky devoted a total of only a few years of his life to the fairy tales that made him famous. I wrote them quickly, with inspiration, and mainly for my own children and grandchildren.

“All my other works are overshadowed to such an extent by my children’s fairy tales that in the minds of many readers, except for “Moidodyrs” and “Mukh-Tsokotukh”, I wrote nothing at all,” Chukovsky said with some resentment.

But the main literary activity of Nikolai Korneychukov (the writer’s real name) is still connected with adult literature, with translations and critical works dedicated to W. Whitman, N. Nekrasov, A. Blok, L. Andreev, A. Akhmatova, A. Chekhov and to other writers.
For his many years of work studying the work of N.A. Nekrasov and the book “The Mastery of N. Nekrasov,” he was awarded the Lenin Prize. For his translation and research activities in the field of English literature in Great Britain, he received the degree of Doctor of Literature Honoris causa from the University of Oxford.

But the main surprise even for Korney Chukovsky himself was the universal love of readers for his children's books. Those boys to whom he wrote about Aibolit in the thirties, before his eyes, turned into parents, then into grandparents, and still read his fairy tales to their kids. More than one generation has grown up on these sincere and very vivid children's stories.
Chukovsky wrote his first book, “Crocodile,” by accident in 1916. He was traveling on a train with his eleven-year-old son, who had a cold, and to entertain him, he began to compose to the sound of the wheels:

Once upon a time there was
Crocodile.
He walked the streets
He smoked cigarettes.
He spoke Turkish -
Crocodile, Crocodile Crocodilovich!

At home, he forgot the fairy tale he had composed on the spot, but his son remembered it well. Because it was too close and understandable to the child.

This is how the children's writer Korney Chukovsky appeared.

All his life he had to prove to others his worth and the right to express his non-trivial view of things. It began with Chukovsky’s childhood trauma as an illegitimate child.

Nikolai Korneychukov was the son of a cook from the Poltava province (the name of his mother - the “Ukrainian girl” Ekaterina Osipovna Korneichukova - and the terrible word: illegitimate are written in the birth certificate). The father was a St. Petersburg student, who subsequently abandoned the writer’s mother.

Why did this kind, spontaneous person turn out to be so dangerous for the official state machine? Why did they begin to ban him, persecute him, and establish secret surveillance? Why did his Barmaley or Aibolit not please the ideologists of socialism?

The completely harmless, apolitical children's books by Korney Chukovsky turned out to be so original, devoid of edification and not fitting into the Soviet literary nomenclature that they caused sacred horror among officials.

In the early forties, in the fairy tale “The Cockroach,” written in 1921, long before Stalin became the “leader of the peoples,” they saw a parody of the head of state.
And many years later, already in the sixties, in the fairy tale about the tiny boy Bibigon, who fought with the turkey Brundulyak, they found ideological hints that were not there at all.

The first blow was struck in 1928 by N. Krupskaya, who was at that time the Deputy People's Commissar of Education. In her article for the Pravda newspaper, she wrote: “Should we give this book to little children? Crocodile... Instead of a story about the life of a crocodile, they will hear incredible nonsense about him. Animals in the guise of people are funny. It's funny to see a crocodile smoking a cigar while riding an airplane. But with the fun comes something else. The second part of “Crocodile” depicts the bourgeois home environment of the crocodile family, and laughter at the fact that the crocodile swallowed a napkin out of fear obscures the depicted vulgarity and teaches one not to notice this vulgarity. The people reward Vanya for his valor, the crocodile gives gifts to his fellow countrymen, and they hug and kiss him for the gifts. “Virtue is paid for, sympathy is bought” - creeps into the child’s brain.

The persecution of the writer began, which was diligently picked up by fellow writers, in particular, the children's writer Agnia Barto.

In 1929, desperate to prove anything to anyone, Chukovsky publicly renounced his fairy tales: “I wrote bad fairy tales. I admit that my fairy tales are not suitable for building a socialist system. I realized that anyone who now avoids participating in the collective work to create a new way of life, there is either a criminal or a corpse. Therefore, now I cannot write about any “crocodiles”, I want to develop new topics that excite new readers. Among the books that I have outlined for my “five-year plan”, the first The place is now occupied by "Merry Collective Farm".

Shortly before his death, he remembers this betrayal with bitterness and repents that he was forced to play by someone else's rules. However, he betrayed himself only in words. After his abdication, Chukovsky wrote only two fairy tales, and then many years later.
"Merry Collective Farm" did not work out.
Apparently, the honesty and sincerity that essays for children required were forever poisoned in him by the “dialogue” with the Soviet regime.

The last blow to the storyteller was dealt in 1945-1946. When, together with the magazines “Zvezda” and “Leningrad”, in which M. Zoshchenko and A. Akhmatova were branded, they attacked the magazine “Murzilka”, where Chukovsky worked and “The Adventures of Bibigon” were published at that time.
The bags of enthusiastic children's responses that poured into the editorial office were urgently destroyed.

Chukovsky's last fairy tale will be published only in 1963. 6 years before the writer’s death, which occurred from infection with viral hepatitis. He was 87 years old.

Korney Chukovsky, despite everything, lived a happy personal and creative life. There were always many children next to him. And this is the main thing, in my opinion, that saved him from repression, a bullet and complete despair. Here's how he himself writes about it:

I never knew it was so joyful to be an old man,
Every day my thoughts are kinder and brighter.
Near dear Pushkin, here on autumn Tverskoy,
I look at the children for a long time with farewell greed.
And tired, old, comforts me
Their endless running and fussing.
Why should we live on this planet?
In the cycle of bloody centuries,
If it weren't for them, not these
Big-eyed, loud children...

Bondarenko Alla Fedorovna

Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution "Organized School No. 2" Khanymey village,

Purovsky district, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Topic: Lesson-trip through the works of K.I. Chukovsky

“Crazy Chukovsky style”

Lesson objectives:

summarize children’s knowledge from the works they read; contribute to the formation of emotional responsiveness to the works of K.I. Chukovsky;

repeat knowledge of small genres of folklore, literary terminology (rhyme);

promote the development of imaginative thinking, attention and memory of students, and foster an interest in reading.

General educational objectives:

formation and improvement of the main types of speech activity (speaking, listening, reading);

formation of the skill of correct, conscious, expressive, fluent reading, role-based reading, and the ability to work with text.

Developmental tasks:

development of cognitive processes;

development of students' creative abilities.

Methods:

problem-illustrative,

creative reading with educational value.

Shapes: individual, pair, frontal, group.

Equipment: portrait of the writer, epigraph “Chukovsky has inexhaustible talent, intelligent, brilliant, cheerful, festive” (I. Andronikov), exhibition of books by K.I. Chukovsky, photo collage “Visiting Moidodyr”, crossword puzzle, children’s drawings for his works; recording of the song “Clouds”.

DURING THE CLASSES

1. Organizational moment.

Stand straight and beautiful.

The bell is ringing, the bell is calling -

And the lesson begins in the classroom.

(Checking readiness for the lesson).

2. Message of the topic, setting the goal of the lesson.

Their writer writes to us,

He writes day and night.

They live in his notebook

Poems, fairy tales and riddles!

Today we are visiting the wonderful writer, storyteller, humorist and merry fellow Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky. His poems and fairy tales give us joy, fun and good mood. Korney Ivanovich was a true friend of children: he loved them, communicated, for each child he found his own cherished, magic word, his own joke, a funny saying. No wonder the children were drawn to him and affectionately called him “Uncle Chukosha.” But in fact, this man’s real name is Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov.

The writer lived in a small country house not far from Moscow. He wrote, translated, published magazines, and edited a lot. K.I. Chukovsky is widely known not only here, but throughout the world.

Let's look at the portrait of this kind and cheerful man, smile at each other and begin a journey through the pages of the works of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky.

3. Consolidation of the studied material.

1 page "Confusion".

What happened to the titles of works by K.I. Chukovsky?

“Fedorino Sea”, “Painted Sun”, “Disgusting”, “The Thin Tree”, “Karmaley”, “Mokdodyr”, “Muse-Tsokotukha”, “The Snakes Are Laughing”, “The Man Drank in the World”.

One of the letters in the titles of the poems is mixed up. Our task is to name the poems correctly.

Open the “Game Library”, p. 48 "Workbook".

The same story happened with the heroes of the work “Confusion”.

Guess which animals are hiding and don’t want to be recognized.

Meowed kittens:

“We're tired of meowing!

We want to grunt like piglets!»

And behind them ducklings:

“We don’t want to quack anymore!

We want to croak like little frogs!»

Pigs meowed:

Meow meow!

Kitties grunted:

Oink oink oink!

The ducks croaked:

Kwa, kwa, kwa!

Chickens quacked:

Quack, quack, quack!

little sparrow galloped up

And the cow mooed:

Moo-oo!

came running bear

And let's roar:

Ku-ka-re-ku!

Physical education minute.

Mood: Do everything diligently,

Listen carefully!

One two three four five!

The children went out for a walk.

We found ourselves in a meadow.

I'm running forward faster!

Buttercups, daisies, pink porridge

Collected our second class

This is the bouquet we have!

(The song “Clouds” plays)

Guys, we need to hurry up, there are some clouds in the sky! What are these amazing clouds?

Page 2 “Joy”.

Which work by K.I. Chukovsky are the drawings of our guys based on?

Poem "Joy".

What is the most important thing in the poem? (Rhyme.)

What is rhyme?

Rhyme is the consonance of the ends of poetic lines (Ozhegov’s dictionary).

Rhyme is the consonant ending of poetic lines.

Rhyme - select words to create a rhyme.

There are poems in which there is no rhyme or it is hidden, but they are very rhythmic and beautiful. Therefore, the most important thing in poetry is the mood.

Reading a poem by students.

Page 3 “Fedorino’s grief”.

To which work does the proverb “Order is the soul of every matter”?

Who has done the homework for our next page? Reading by role of the fairy tale “Fedorino’s grief.” Those interested, please come to the board!

Reading by roles p. 19-22

How do we see Fedora at the beginning and end of the fairy tale: sloppy, lazy, caring?

How should you treat your things?

Page 4 “Riddles of K.I. Chukovsky."

Look at the book "Riddles".

This book contains riddles for children, written in poetic form by K..I. Chukovsky. I will give you riddles on cards. Get ready to tell them to your friends (cards are given to students who read well).

She grows upside down

It grows not in summer, but in winter.

But the sun will bake her -

She will cry and die.

(Icicle.)

I am a giant: that huge one over there,

Multi-pound slab

Like a chocolate bar

I instantly rise to height.

(Crane.)

Suddenly out of the black darkness

Bushes grew in the sky.

And they're blue

Crimson, gold

Flowers are blooming

Unprecedented beauty.

And all the streets below them

They also turned blue

Crimson, gold,

Multi-colored.

I'm not wandering through forests,

And by the mustache, by the hair,

And my teeth are longer,

Than wolves and bears.

(Comb.)

Little houses

They are running down the street.

Boys and girls

The houses are being transported.

(Cars.)

The sage saw a sage in him,

Stupid - stupid

Ram - ram,

The sheep saw him as a sheep,

And a monkey - a monkey.

But they brought him to him

Fedya Baratova,

And Fedya saw the shaggy slob.

(Mirror.)

I'm a one-eared old woman

I'm jumping on the canvas

And a long thread from the ear,

Like a web I pull.

I have two horses, two horses.

They carry me along the water.

And the water is hard, like stone.

Here are the needles and pins

They crawl out from under the bench.

They look at me

They want milk.

Physical education minute.

We sat, we sat,

Our backs went numb.

(Children stand up.)

Let's wait a little

Let's look out the window.

Keep your head straight, look up, down, left, right.

Use your eyes to write the first letter of your name.

Close your eyes.

Now let’s open our eyes and continue working.

Page 5 “Moidodyr”.

The history of the creation of the poem “Moidodyr” is interesting.

One day K.I. Chukovsky was working in his office and suddenly heard loud crying. His youngest daughter cried, expressing her reluctance to wash. Chukovsky left the office, took his daughter in his arms and, quite unexpectedly for himself, quietly said:

“We must, we must wash ourselves.

In the mornings and evenings,

And to unclean chimney sweeps -

Shame and disgrace, shame and disgrace!

That’s how “Moidodyr” was born.

Guys, we received a package from Moidodyr! Let's see what's in it. (The teacher takes out the letter and gives it to the student.)

Student (reads).

"Dear Guys! I, Moidodyr, ask you to join the Society of Friends of Cleanliness! Members of this society can be all students who are friends with soap, a washcloth, a toothbrush, and toothpaste.”

Guys, are there those among you who are not friends with soap, a washcloth, and a toothbrush? No? Then you can all consider yourselves members of the Society of Friends of Cleanliness.

A poster is hung on the board on which the rules of the friends of cleanliness are written:

Wash your hands, face and neck morning and evening.

Don't forget to clean the dirt from under your nails.

Wash my feet before bed every day.

Brush your teeth morning and evening.

Oh! And there’s something else in the package. Here... this is a reminder for every student!

Now we are sure that everyone knows and follows the rules of cleanliness!

Page 6 “Favorite books of K.I. Chukovsky."

We will encounter the works of K.I. many more times. Chukovsky during lessons at school. But I would like you to read it yourself.

A lot of books for children are published in our country. Every year they are brighter and more beautiful. The exhibition presents wonderful works by K.I. Chukovsky.

4. Summing up the lesson.

What is the most important thing in the poem?

What works by K.I. Did we repeat Chukovsky in class?

What rules does Moidodyr advise to follow?

Today everyone was happy with your answers. It was a pleasure traveling and working with you. Thank you.

5. Homework.

p.54 in the workbook.

Game journey through the works of K. I. Chukovsky - page No. 1/1

(1882-1969)

Game journey through the works of K.I. Chukovsky.

1. Portrait of K.I. Chukovsky, photographs.

2. Book exhibition, epigraph “If you add up all the paths of joy that Chukovsky paved to children’s hearts, you will get a road to the moon” (S. Obraztsov).
Progress of the event.

(Music “Doctor Aibolit and the Monkeys” sounds)

Leading. Today we have gathered in this hall to celebrate the birthday of one cheerful and cheerful person who loved children and dedicated many poems and fairy tales to them. He was even born

April 1, which is considered a day of jokes, fun and laughter. This was in 1882. So, if the writer were alive, he would now be 120 years old. Today we will talk about Korney Ivanovich

Chukovsky! Chukovsky lived almost his entire life in St. Petersburg. He was a literary critic by profession, he loved his profession very much, and if he had been told that he would be famous as

A children's writer, he would probably be very surprised. Chukovsky became a children's poet and storyteller quite by accident. Here's how it happened.

His little son fell ill in Helsenki, and Korney Ivanovich took him home on the night train.

The boy was capricious, moaning, crying. To somehow entertain him, his father began to tell him a fairy tale. The boy stopped being capricious, listened without opening his mouth, and then calmly fell asleep. The next morning, barely

Waking up, he immediately demanded that his father tell him yesterday’s tale again.

Perhaps this incident would not have had any consequences. But soon something similar happened to Korney Ivanovich again. He was sitting at his desk and working on an article that a scientific journal had ordered for him. Suddenly he heard a loud cry. It was his youngest daughter crying. She roared in three streams, violently expressing her reluctance to wash herself. Chukovsky left the office, took the girl in his arms and, unexpectedly for himself, quietly said to her: We must, we must wash ourselves.

In the mornings and evenings,

And not to pure chimney sweeps -

Shame and disgrace! Shame and disgrace!

Many years have passed since then, and the works of K.I. Chukovsky are known not only in Russia, but also in other countries.

Tall stature, long arms with large hands, large facial features, a large curious nose, a brush of a mustache, an unruly strand of hair hanging over his forehead, laughing light eyes - this is the appearance of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky. By the way, K.I. Chukovsky is a literary pseudonym. Do any of you know the real name of the writer? (Nikolai Vasilievich Kornechuykov).

“A-a-a-a, Chukovsky! – some of you said at the beginning of our meeting. “Everyone has known about him since childhood.” Today we will check if everything is real. I invite you on a journey.

Station 1. Vokzalnaya

Station 2. Zagadkino.

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was a very hardworking person. “Always,” he wrote, “no matter where I was: on the tram, in line, I composed riddles for children.”

Wonderful house, No wheels!

And something knocked inside him. What a miracle locomotive!

And he crashed, and from there, didn’t he go crazy -

A living miracle ran out and walked straight across the sea! (Steamboat).

So warm, so

Fluffy and golden. (Egg and chicken).

3. Ah, don't touch me

I will burn without fire! (Nettle)

White animals sit at the door.

And meat, and bread - all the spoils -

I gladly give it to white animals. (Lips and teeth).

5. I had a cart

But there was no horse.

And suddenly she neighed

She neighed and ran.

Look, a cart is running without a horse! (Truck).

6. I have two horses, two horses.

They carry me along the water.

And the water is hard, like stone. (Skates and ice).

7. The sage saw the sage in him,

Stupid - stupid

Ram - ram,

The sheep saw him as a sheep,

And a monkey - a monkey,

But then they brought Fedya Baratov to him,

And Fedya saw the shaggy slob. (Mirror).

8. I'm lying under your feet,

You trample me with your boots,

And tomorrow you will take me to the yard

And hit me, hit me,

So that the children can lie on me,

Flounder and somersault on me. (Carpet).

9. Little houses are running along the street,

Boys and girls are being taken to their houses. (Automobile).

10. She grows upside down

It grows not in summer, but in winter.

But the sun will burn -

She will cry and die. (Icicle).

11. I'm not wandering through forests,

And by the mustache, by the hair.

And my teeth are longer,

Than wolves and bears (Comb).

12. They flew into a raspberry

They wanted to peck her

But they saw a freak -

And get out of the garden quickly!

And the freak is sitting on a stick,

With a beard made from a washcloth. (Birds and scarecrow).

13. If only pine trees ate

They knew how to run and jump,

They would rush away from me without looking back,

And they would never meet me again,

Because – I’ll tell you without bragging –

I am steely, and angry, and very toothy. (Saw).

14. I'm a one-eared old woman

I'm jumping on the canvas

And a long thread from the ear,

Like a web I pull. (Needle).

15.Here needles and pins

They crawl out from under the bench.

They look at me

They want milk. (Hedgehog).

1 .In the vegetable garden

Grow...(chocolates; “Miracle Tree”)

2. There's polish on your neck,

Under your nose... (blot; “Moidodyr”)

3 .The fly went to the market

And she bought... (samovar; “Fly – Tsokotukha”)

4. Robin Bobin Barabek

Ate forty...(person; “Barabek”)

5. The bears were driving

On...(bicycle; “Cockroach”)

6. And they stood at the gate

Twisted Christmas trees,

We walked there without worries

Crooked...(wolves; “Once upon a time there lived a man”)

7. And again the bear: -Oh, save the walrus!

Yesterday he swallowed a sea...(urchin; “telephone”)

8. Look into the tub -

And you will see there... (a frog; “Fedorino’s grief”)

9. The little frogs came running,

Watered from... (tub; “Confusion”)

10. Dear girl Lyalechka!

She was walking with a doll

And on Tavricheskaya street

Suddenly I saw... (an elephant)

Station 4. Heroic

1. A good doctor who treated animals and birds. (Aibolit).

2. A nice dog from the fairy tale “Doctor Aibolit.” (Abba).

3. A thick-skinned animal that fell into a swamp. (Hippopotamus)

4. Evil sister of Aibolit. (Varvara)

5. The daredevil who swallowed the villain in the fairy tale “The Cockroach.”

6. The monkey who scared the children with the Karakula shark in the poem “Barmaley” (Gorilla).

7. The daredevil who defeated the Spider in the poem “Fly - Tsokotukha” (Mosquito).

8. Doctor Aibolit's duck (Kika).

9. A terrible giant who was swallowed by the daring Sparrow (Cockroach).

10. The grandmother from whom the dishes ran away (Fedora).

Station 5. Confusion

1. 
   "Arbolit" (Aibolit)
2. 
   "Disgusting" (Joy)
3. 
   "Karmaley" (Barmaley)
4. 
   "The Painted Sun" (The Stolen Sun)
5. 
   "Nophelet" (Telephone)
6. 
   “A man drank in the world” (A man lived in the world)
7. 
   "Puganitsa" (Confusion)
8. 
   “The snakes are laughing” (The hedgehogs are laughing)
9. 
   “Khudo-tree” (Miracle-tree)

Station 6. Crossword

Final words from the presenter.

Our journey has now ended. Many more times you will encounter works

K.I. Chukovsky, and now we will summarize.

Thank you all for your attention,

For enthusiasm and ringing laughter,

For the excitement of competition,

Guaranteed success.

Now the moment of farewell has come,

Our speech will be short.

We say: “Goodbye,

See you happy next time!”

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   “Library at school” No. 01 (85) - 2003.

A holiday of health and cleanliness.

(theatrical play program).
Characters: presenter, Cleanliness, Dirt, Hedgehog, Wolf, Bear, Hare.
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